July 11, 2011
July 11, 2011
Andy Burnham, the shadow education secretary, says secondary schools should give pupils more vocational opportunities. Labour calls for schools to teach ‘route into work’. Burnham will this week reveal plans to give every secondary school pupil a path to employment if they met a set of required standards, under a revamped curriculum, more geared to […]
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July 11, 2011
The gap between the poorest pupils and their better-off peers in struggling schools in England is wider than in other schools, research suggests. White British pupils “seemed to pose the biggest challenge”, the study says. The Sutton Trust is launching an Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) targeting this group of children, using £125m of government money […]
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July 11, 2011
New research by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) investigated how higher education can increase the uptake of high-quality work experience by students and graduates, including broadening the range of employers that offer placement opportunities.
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July 11, 2011
Edge Foundation and the University of Glasgow have teamed up to research the employability of UK graduates. The report sets out recommendations including placing employability at the centre of HEIs’ strategic planning, widening access to work placements, and promoting partnerships between employers and HEIs. Read the full report: Employers’ perceptions of the employability of new […]
Read moreJuly 8, 2011
July 8, 2011
Prof Chris James, Dr David Eddy Spicer and Prof Stephen Brammer are undertaking a study to explore the role of chairs of school governing bodies across England. Respondents will be asked to consider the challenges of chairing school governing bodies and the nature of the responsibilities involved. The deadline is 22 July 2011. It will […]
Read moreJuly 8, 2011
July 8, 2011
Just five schools in England sent more pupils to Oxford and Cambridge over three years than nearly 2,000 others ‘combined’, Sutton Trust research and BBC data analysis has found. Read the full BBC story.
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July 8, 2011
In a new report by the Institute of Directors and education researchers CFE, the consequences of a flawed skills system to the economy are laid bare. Despite ten years of intense government activity on the skills front, 58% of company directors report that skills gaps are holding back the growth of their firms. Reforming the […]
Read moreJuly 6, 2011
July 6, 2011
New Taskforce research has been published that explores how ‘experience of the world of work’ feeds into admissions to Russell Group universities. It is a desktop review of admissions and criteria for six courses namely: Business/Economics/Management, Dentistry, Engineering, Law, Medicine and Veterinary Medicine/Science. It looks into whether ‘experience of the world of work’ was cited […]
Read moreJuly 4, 2011
July 4, 2011
Exam data should be complimented by other indicators such as Ofsted judgements, pupil and parent satisfaction surveys, the range of subjects offered, staff turnover, attendance, expulsion rates and a measure of pupils’ employment or higher education prospects 12 months, two years and five years after leaving school. Read the full Telegraph story.
Read moreJuly 1, 2011
July 1, 2011
Government figures show that the highest ever proportion of 16-18 year olds were participating in education or training at the end of 2010. The annual data on young people’s participation in education, employment and training showed the proportion of 16-18 year olds in education and training was 84.4 per cent at the end of 2010 […]
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